1、山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 1 / 17 山东省青岛市黄岛区 2019-2020 学年高二英语上学期期中试题 （考试时间：120 分钟 试卷满分：150 分） 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡上。 2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 如需改动， 用橡皮擦干净后， 再选涂其他答案标号。 回答非选择题时， 将答案写在答题卡上， 写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 3030 分）分） 做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的
2、时间将试卷上的答案 转涂到答题卡上。 第一节（共第一节（共 5 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.51.5 分，满分分，满分 7.57.5 分）分） 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳 选项。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话 仅读一遍。 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳 选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和 阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What is the woman going t
3、o do? A. Get some sleep. B. Go surfing. C. Jog on the beach. 2. When will the bus arrive? A. At 7:20. B. At 7:22. C. At 7:30. 3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Boss and employee. B. Workmates. C. Taxi driver and passenger. 4. Where does the conversation probably take plac
4、e? A. In a bank. B. In a restaurant. C. In a hospital. 5. What is the woman worried about? A. Her parents health. B. Her daughters safety. C. Her daughters education. 第二节第二节( (共共 1515 小题小题：每小题：每小题 1.51.5 分分，满分，满分 22.522.5 分分) ) 听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选 项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白
5、前，你将有时间阅读各个小 题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。 6. What does the woman say about the subway here? A. Its crowded. B. Its convenient. C. Its complicated. 7. How long is the subway in service in the mans country? 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 2 / 17 A. 16 hours. B. 18 hours. C. 20
6、 hours. 听下面一段对话，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。 8. What does the study show about cyber bullying? A. Few teenagers fight against it. B. Lots of teenagers take part in it. C. Most teenagers dont know about it. 9. What does the man think of cyber bullying? A. Improper. B. Amusing. C. Unbelievable. 听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第
7、12 三个小题。 10. Who recommended this restaurant? A. Tony. B. The woman. C. Jack. 11. What food was the man satisfied with? A. Steak. B. Cheesecake. C. Salad. 12. Why did the speakers eat out last night? A. To hold a farewell party. B. To solve office problems. C. To meet some new people. 听下面一段对话，回答第 13
8、 至第 16 四个小题。 13. Where was Mr. Taylors latest book set? A. In Egypt. B. In Morocco. C. In South Africa. 14. What was the worst thing that has ever happened to Mr. Taylor? A. Some wild animals attacked him. B. His car broke down in a desert. C. He almost died from lack of water. 15. What does Mr. Tay
9、lor usually do in his free time? A. He writes novels. B. He relaxes at home. C. He socializes with friends. 16. What is Mr. Taylors plan for the future? A. Keeping writing novels. B. Working on a history book. C. Traveling around the world. 听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。 17. How much does each square st
10、one weigh? A. Nearly 3 tons. B. Nearly 5 tons. C. Nearly 18 tons. 18. What was the speaker wondering when seeing the stones? A. How Stonehenge was built. B. Where the stones came from. C. Who built Stonehenge. 19. What does the speaker want to do? 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 3 / 17 A. Learn more modern technol
11、ogy. B. Travel to England again. C. Unlock the mystery. 20. What does the speaker mainly talk about? A. Attractions in England. B. Mysteries all over the world. C. His experience of visiting Stonehenge. 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解阅读理解 （共两节，满分（共两节，满分 5 50 0 分）分） 第一节第一节 （1515 个小题，每题个小题，每题 2.52.5 分，满分分，满分 37.537.5 分
12、分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A A Manny Abreu practices Benjamin Franklins famous saying, “If you want something done, ask a busy person.” Throughout his four years at Kellenberg Memorial High School in the US, Abreu made community service an important part of his life. “I dont know where
13、 he finds the time to do everything,” said Erin Ronan, Abreus math teacher. “Hes truly a class act.” As an honors student, Abreu, 18, took part in different voluntary activities after school, during weekends and summer holidays. These included helping staff at the public library, doing landscape wor
14、k at Kellenberg, and serving customers at a local restaurant. But faced with a limited number of hours in a day, Abreu left his library job last summer to start working as an emergency medical technician a role that fits his passion for making a difference in other peoples lives. “My appreciation fo
15、r service has guided me into giving back,” said Abreu, who is setting his sights on becoming a doctor. “Its such a rewarding feeling to help someone.” During his three years at high school, Abreu devoted between 40 and 50 hours of his time each year to volunteer work more than double the schools ann
16、ual requirement of 20 hours. For all his hard work, Abreu was welcomed into a leadership club that organizes fellow students volunteer activities. St Martin de Porres Marianist School (Kellenbergs sister school) also benefited from Abreus devotion. Through his schools Smart Club program, he voluntar
17、ily provided homework help and played games with the junior high school students. Abreu thanked his parents for inspiring him to do the right thing, saying they 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 4 / 17 are “the most selfless people I know.” He remembered when he was about 6 years old, his mother invited a disadvanta
18、ged neighborhood boy to have dinner. Upon observing the boys happiness, Abreu came away with a sense of how he wanted to live his own life “I wont focus on my own desires. Ill help as many people as I can,” he said. 21. What did Erin Ronan really mean by his words in paragraph 3? A. Abreu should foc
19、us his time on his study. B. Abreu is a very excellent student. C. Abreu often likes to show off in his class. D. Abreu has lost interest in his study to make community service. 22. Why did Abreu work as a medical technician? A. Because he loved being praised by other people. B. Because he didnt hav
20、e time to do any other job. C. Because he desired to improve the lives of others. D. Because he hoped to try different types of jobs. 23. What did Abreu get from his hard work? A. It gave him a sense of self-worth by helping others. B. It made his family famous around the neighborhood. C. It gave hi
21、m a chance to attend medical school for free. D. It made him a leader among his fellow school students. B B All eyes were on Jack Ma. The chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd stepped down on Teachers Day from leading the e-commerce giant he founded 20 years ago. “I still have lots of dreams to go a
22、fter,” Ma wrote in an open letter last year to announce his parting. “The world is big, and I am still young, so I want to try new things.” The 55-year-old businessman showed that he was ready for new things by arriving at his farewell party (欢送会) dressed up like a rock star. In fact, his rags-to-ri
23、ches story is a good example of doing something different. Visiting the United States in 1995, Ma saw the internet and had the idea of setting up his own trading website. In 1999, he founded Alibaba with a group of friends in a shared apartment, struggling for years to get it off the ground. With al
24、l the challenges, the company slowly brought e-commerce to China. Although his success has influenced a number of Chinese tech businessmen, Ma pointed out that the key is having a dream. “Its the dreams that keep us never 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 5 / 17 afraid of setbacks (挫折),” Ma said in a video posted on
25、 Sept 9. Now the experienced businessman is looking to focus on education. What can he offer? “Im not gonna teach English; Im not gonna teach business. But Im gonna teach young people how to face challenges,” he told Bloomberg News. Skilled sailors were never made on calm waters. As Ma said, “Today
26、is cruel. Tomorrow is crueler. But the day after tomorrow is beautiful.” 24. What can we learn from Paragraph 4? A. Ma had enough money to start Alibaba. B. Ma is forward-looking and determined. C. Going abroad is important to start ones business. D. The idea of setting up trading website was very p
27、opular from the beginning. 25. Whats the most important for his success according to Ma? A. Experiences. B. Dreams. C. Education. D. Challenges. 26. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph imply? A. Practice makes perfect. B. Confidence is the key to success. C. Good conditions help
28、people grow and learn. D. Challenges allow us to develop new abilities. 27. Whats the best title of the passage? A. Leaving to pursue his new dreams B. Mas retirement from Alibaba C. Great achievements of Ma D. Returning to English teaching C C A rainy day can be a chance to recharge. While you rela
29、xed on the sofa with a movie, the raindrops falling on your windows might one day provide the power for your TV. This is the idea behind an invention that harvests energy from water. The technology is based on the triboelectric (摩擦电的) effect. An engineer at the University of Hawaii, David Ma knew th
30、at its possible to generate electricity by rubbing two things together. So, he thought, “Why dont we use water?” A drop of water sliding across a surface coated with two different materials would generate enough friction (摩擦) to create an electrical charge. By placing 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 6 / 17 metal w
31、ires that the drop of water touched as it moved, it should be possible to harvest electricity, he reasoned. It worked. In fact, the researchers lit up 15 LED bulbs with a single moving water drop. This is not the first time that scientists have got electricity from water-generated friction. Earlier
32、experiments, though, harvested the charge produced in a surface by a sliding drop of water. There, the surface had acted as an electrode (电极). This is different. The energy of friction is being harvested from the water itself. “It turns out,” Ma says, “the charge in the water drop is much more than
33、the charge produced in the other electrode.” In fact, his teams model generated almost 100 times more power than previous experiments from a single drop of water. “The technology could someday power phones, sensors or other small electronics,” says Christopher Oshman, an engineer at the Colorado Sch
34、ool of Mines. “This work is a step toward harvesting the energy of moving objects all around us, including ourselves, to power the electronic devices we use every day,” he says. Ma has shown that the technology can work in a lab, Oshman says. Next, the Colorado researcher would like to see it tried
35、on a larger scale, such as on an umbrella. 28. How does the author introduce the topic of the text? A. By telling a story. B. By raising a question. C. By giving an example. D. By imagining a situation. 29. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. The wire. B. The drop of water
36、. C. The surface. D. The electricity. 30. What is unique about Mas technique compared with earlier experiments? A. The water itself acts as an electrode. B. It is based on the triboelectric effect. C. It produces electricity from water-made friction. D. It uses a surface covered with two different m
37、aterials. 31. What does Oshman say about Mas technology? A. It has a promising future. B. It will do well on an umbrella. C. It works well in the real world. D. It will replace batteries someday. D D 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 7 / 17 Dreaming of summer picnics filled with family and fun? Weve come up with 4 o
38、f the top picnic areas across the US. Cumberland Islands, Cumberland Islands, GeorgiaGeorgia Just a few hours south of Savannah, this national seashore is a wonderful picnic place. Its an unspoiled place in the Deep South with over 50 miles of hiking trails (小径). Covered in Spanish moss, the trails
39、are lined with trees and since its still a rural area, the stars line up for a grand show at night and create the perfect evening starlit picnic opportunity. Grant Park, ChicagoGrant Park, Chicago If you are looking for delicious food in Chicago, go for a taste of a 20-day, lake-front, foodie festiv
40、al that happens in October each year. Grab a spot near the fountain to enjoy your picnic, appreciate the city scenery and lake views and relax with family and friends. If you are there on July 4th, be sure to plan the day to include the fireworks display at the Navy Pier. Cranberry Islands, MaineCra
41、nberry Islands, Maine Here, youll enjoy natural picnics with island views. The islands are a delightful group of islands about 20 minutes offshore from Acadia National Park. You can visit the islands by private boat or ferry service. Bring a picnic basket along for the ride as its a romantic picnic
42、area to take your special someone or go for a family outing to visit the islands. Big Sur, CaliforniaBig Sur, California The Point Lobos State Reserve is a small gem. Besides the coastal wildlife there are rare plant communities, and unique geological formations. Its good to have a picnic there. We
43、recommend bringing a telescope, because much of the wildlife can be seen only at a distance. 32. Why does the writer advise us going to Cumberland Islands? A. Because they are just next to Savannah. B. Because they keep their original ecology (生态). C. Because they are almost covered in Spanish moss.
44、 D. Because they have a grand show every night. 33. Where can you enjoy observing wildlife with a telescope? A. At the Navy Pier. B. In the Deep South. C. At Acadia National Park. D. At the Point Lobos State Reserve. 34. Whats the authors purpose of writing this passage? A. To introduce some picnic
45、areas in the US. B. To share personal stories about picnics. 山东青岛黄岛高二英语上册期中试卷 8 / 17 C. To tell readers some good ways to relax. D. To offer readers tips for summer holiday. 35. Where can we most probably read this passage? A. In a personal dairy. B. In a science report. C. In a travel magazine. D.
46、In a geography textbook. 第二节（共第二节（共 5 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 2.5.5 分，满分分，满分 1 12.52.5 分）分） 根据短文内容， 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余 选项。 As the saying goes, “No man is an island.” We all need to connect with other people to fully give meaning to our lives. As we grow older, we develop closeness to certain
47、people. 36 A Group of FriendsA Group of Friends Having a group of friends is healthy because you get to grow and learn things together. 37 but your friends will always relate to you because they are going through the very same things. A good group of friends are the ones who make you a better person
48、. YourYour Best FriendBest Friend Even if you belong to a group of friends, there will always be that one person you trust and care for the most. A best friend is that one person who listens to your problems and makes sacrifices for your sake. 38 This person is someone who will believe in you and st
49、and by you every step of the way. The Bonds That LastThe Bonds That Last 39 There are times good friends are separated for years, but when they meet again, they feel as close to each other as they used to when they were younger. And even though they get busy, all it takes is a reunion to rekindle all the happy memories and make new ones in the process. A Good FriendA Good Friend
